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US Navy: Third Constellation frigate under contract with Marinette

US Navy: Third Constellation frigate under contract with Marinette

Gepostet von | 27 Jun 2022 | , , , , | 0

In July 2017, the U.S. Navy's Department of Defence announced the tender for the FFG(X) frigate project with twenty units. The FFG(X) was to be the successor to the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS, Independence and Freedom classes), which did not quite meet the Navy's expectations precisely because of its complex, expensive and vulnerable modularity. It selected five shipbuilders worldwide who were asked to submit their designs for the planned FFG(X) missile frigate. In the US, the procurement process separates the design selection and the award of a single-ship construction contract. In April 2020, it was then announced that Fincantieri Marinette Marine (Italy) had been awarded the...

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Russian Navy: 46 new ships in 2022

Russian Navy: 46 new ships in 2022

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Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov confirmed the arrival of 46 new units for the Russian Federation Navy in 2022 - 50 ships are already in various stages of construction at the country's shipyards. The Russian naval commander made these statements during a multiple keel-laying ceremony for no fewer than six units, which was held in St Petersburg and broadcast to the media via video conference. Only in this way is it possible to have a navy ready for Supreme Commander Vladimir Putin that consists of at least 70 per cent modern platforms. Three in one go In St Petersburg, Yevmenov initiated the start of construction for two conventional naval platforms at the Admiralty shipyard....

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USA: Landing ships and big drones

USA: Landing ships and big drones

Gepostet von | 27 Jun 2022 | , , , | 0

USS Fort Lauderdale In mid-March 2022, the Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Shipbuilding Division in Pascagoula, Mississippi, delivered the USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28), the twelfth of the San Antonio-class amphibious dock landing ships, to the US Navy. After some further proof, Fort Lauderdale will be able to embark its contingent of Marines, their conventional and hovercraft landing craft, as well as the helicopters and the swing-rotor aircraft. LDUUV Snakehead Against the backdrop of the number thirteen of this class, the USS Richard S. McCool, moored at the outfitting pier in Pascagoula, the technical solution developed and tested at HII in order to equip the LDUUV (large-diameter...

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Belgian-Dutch minehunter programme: Keel N° 2 laid

Belgian-Dutch minehunter programme: Keel N° 2 laid

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After the keel for the first Belgian boat (as yet unnamed) was laid at the beginning of December 2021, the keel for the HNLMS Vlissingen, the first Dutch boat, was also celebrated in mid-June at the Naval Group in Lanester/Lorient. In accordance with the contract concluded in 2019 with Belgium Naval & Robotics as a consortium of the French Naval Group and the Belgian ECA Group, twelve mine defence units including a "toolbox" each with a total of around one hundred system-integrated drones are to be delivered for both countries. Who is doing what Naval Group is the prime contractor and is responsible for the development...

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British OPV on 5-year deployment to the Western Pacific

British OPV on 5-year deployment to the Western Pacific

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Their five-year trip to East Asia, or Indo-Asia-Pacific Deployment, began nine months ago. The two OPVs, HMS Tamar and HMS Spey (Modified River class), are certainly not big ships, but with a length of 81 metres and a displacement of 1,800 tonnes, they have to "shimmy" their way through in stages. Departing from Portsmouth in September, it has so far travelled via Colombia, the Panama Canal and up the US west coast to Hawaii. In January, the Chinese South Pacific was on the programme with reconnaissance and monitoring of unauthorised maritime activities, such as the ship-to-ship transfer of North Korean-flagged vessels (UN Security Council embargo). This was followed in February by participation in the "Bersama...

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